Hegar

@Hegar@fedia.io

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Technically Correct⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah, dang. Yeah I was there before 2013 and it was so noticably delicious. The friend I was visiting said it was the first thing her mother had said when visiting as well, how good the tap water was.

  Bummer to hear that's changed!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are people downvoting the MediaBiasFactChecker not?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  TBH, I just don't think something better is possible - I suspect that there are no valid shortcuts to trust.

  Unless something is just obviously bullshit, it will always take some time to develop a sense of how the different sources are treating a new story. Even a trusted source can prove unreliable on a particular topic.

  It's uncomfortable living with that uncertainty until you've seen a story from enough angles that you can judge for yourself. But either the story is important enough to me to spend that time, or I just accept that I can't really know.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Technically Correct⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The tap water in Canberra, Australia is the tastiest I've tried out of the ~20-50 municipalities I've sampled in Australia, Western and Southern Europe, the US, China, Taiwan and Vietnam.

  Also the US is not a third world nation, it's a developing nation. Or under-developed would be more accurate, but that's not a popular term. The US is a first world nation by definition, since first world just means the US global empire and it's allies.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Technically Correct⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don't think they need to make the enforcement of rules ultimately arbitrary to prevent explosives. You already can't bring explosives. The molecules involved are not relevant.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Technically Correct⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah yes, the "rules only apply when I say they do" rule. Much legitimate.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are people downvoting the MediaBiasFactChecker not?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Just block it and move on already. Your disagreement is hardly worth this crusade.

  That's not sufficient.

  A private trust assessing company shouldn't be given free space in an open public forum as though it's assessments we're something the general public should be aware of. If you trust it you can go seek it's assessment off site. But this company shouldn't be allowed to spam the fediverse of all places.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are people downvoting the MediaBiasFactChecker not?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I down voted, argued against and the blocked it because:

  • I don't trust its specific analysis of sites. Others detail some examples.

  • I don't think whole-site analysis is very useful in combatting misinformation. The reliability and fullness of facts presented by any single site varies a lot depending on the topic or type of story.

  • Other than identifying blatant disinformation sites I don't see what useful information it provides. But even that's rare here and rarely needs a bot to spot.

  • Why is an open-source, de-centralized platform giving free space to a private company?

  • Giving permission for a private trust-assesing company to be operating in an open public forum makes it look as if these assessments reflected a neutral reality that most or all readers would agree on or want to be aware of. Really, it's a service that people can seek out of they decide they trust it.

  Presenting this company's assessment on each or most articles gives them undue authority that is especially inappropriate on the fediverse.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google Planned to Sponsor IDF Conference That Now Denies Google Was Sponsor⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think the allusion is probably to clouds, given that project nimbus is amazon and google cloud updating the israeli government's cloud computing and nimbus is latin for cloud.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We love our new Democratic Nominee, Don't We Folks?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Not engaging and instead just letting readers see your other response would've been the classier move.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Loading like a 90's dell computer⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is called parsing - your brain processing the speech sounds into meaning. That feeling of suddenly realizing what was said is your brain needing a little extra time to parse.

  This can happen for lots of reasons. One time my sister in law was so grumpy that my brain struggled to parse what she was saying because the tone and words were so mismatched.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Most important map⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  In NNY it's called momcorp.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Says Bye-Bye DEI, Joins Growing List Of Corporations Dismantling Diversity Teams⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is part of Leonard Leo's plan to re-mccarthy-ize US society and purge anyone left of fascist, same way he orchestrated the right wing take over of our courts.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Headlines⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  the world is lead by assholes, on all sides.

  This is an objectively true statement. Of course the world is lead by assholes.

  We all know that power corrupts. Neuroscience has shown that getting power damages the brain's capacity for empathy.

  You just can't lead a nation without becoming capable of great evil.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When creating a story, how many black characters can I create without them calling the story woke?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Nazis in the 1940s were actually socialists

  No, they were not. Not at all, not even a little.

  You can't eat urinal cake and great danes don't get a vote in the national elections in Denmark.

  Sometimes a name is misleading.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is objectively within the bounds of "normal" human experience. It's seen in primates and other mammals too.

  Sleeping in the same bed as your family was the norm for a long while, across many cultures. It was also perfectly normal for noble to sleep in the same bed as some of their staff, or for merchants or other traveller to share a bed while on the road.

  Most people in many western cultures would probably find it weird, but they're the weird ones for needlessly sexualizing the act of sleeping.